Re: [PATCH] PM / OPP: discard duplicate OPP additions

From: Chander Kashyap
Date: Tue May 13 2014 - 07:57:43 EST


On 13 May 2014 16:35, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 13 May 2014 16:00, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 13 May 2014 13:11, [Chander Kashyap <chander.kashyap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> What happened to your name ? "["
>>>
>>>> From: Chander Kashyap <k.chander@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> It may be possible to unregister and re-register the cpufreq driver.
>>>> One such example is arm big-little IKS cpufreq driver. While
>>>> re-registering the driver, same OPPs may get added again.
>>>>
>>>> This patch detects the duplicacy and discards them.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Chander Kashyap <k.chander@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Inderpal Singh <inderpal.s@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/base/power/opp.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++---------
>>>> 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> I wouldn't say that this approach is particularly bad or wrong, but what
>>> about this instead?
>>>
>>
>> Yes I prefer this and this exactly what I had[1] in my OPP DT series which
>> we could not conclude on the bindings. You also need patch[2] for DT version.
>
> Ahh, I have just reinvented the wheel. Though I can see now that I have
> Acked those patches as well :)
>
> So, what are the plans for those patches then? As Chander also needs few
> of those.
>
> Probably split the series to get the non-blockers upstream Atleast ?
>
> Another thing that I thought later, though the problem can be fixed by
> your version of patches, the version from chander had something good as
> well. It would get rid of duplicate entries coming from dtb. Would it make
> sense to get that part in as well?

This patch takes care for duplicate entries even without dt. Hence i
feel it can go as separate patch.


>
> --
> viresh



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with warm regards,
Chander Kashyap
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